Refrigerator



chambered door hinged to its sides.

UNITED STATES PATENTY OFFICE.

JAMES H. PoEoUPILE, 0E PAEKERSBUEG, IOWA.

REFRIGERATOR.-

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 224,222, dated February 3, 1880. Application filed July 12, 1879.4

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMEs H. PoRoUPILE, of Parkersburg, in the county of Butler and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of thev drawings is a representation of a longitudinal central vertical section of my refrigerator, and Fig. 2 is a top i View thereof with `the lid removed.

This invention has relation to improvements in refrigerators; and the nature of the invention consists in combining, with an insulated ice-box or refrigerator, constructed as de,v scribed, and having a lid, removableor hinged, and likewise insulated, an inclined ice-receptacle having close sides, ends, and bottom, a waste-pipe extending to the outside of the box, and havin gits higher edge in close contact with the insulated lid, and grooves out in the under side of the lid, extending beyond the said receptacle, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

ln the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a rectangular wooden box, having at its bottom, sides, and ends the double walls a a', forming the air-chambers b, and provided with a lid, c, also having double walls, d, and an air chamber, d. This lid has extending through it a metallic `tube, e, the object of Which Will hereinafter appear, and access is had to thepinterior of the box through a double walled and In between the double Walls, and resting against the inner ones, is a sheet of stout pasteboard, f, that eii'ectually prevents the atmosphere of theiuterior of the box from being affected by Y theatmosphere outside, the said board being a very poor conductor of heat.` To this result the chambers between the double Walls mate rially assist. 1 l

B indicates the ice-receptacle, arranged upon a rack, g, at the upper part of the box, in an inclined position, and having a drip-spout, h, extending through the side thereof. The upper edge of this receptacle, at one end, tits snugly against the under side of the lid, as shown in Fig. l. Below rack g are other racks, g', to receive fresh meats and other perishable articles. As the atmosphere of the b'ox becomes lowered by the ice the coldest and heaviest currents pass out of the same at its right-hand end, through the grooves l in-the under side of the lid, and sink down upon the provisions on the racks, Wherev they lose 1n uch of their frigidity, become lighter, and rise, passing out of the refrigerator through the tube in its lid.

5 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-` In a refrigerator, the combination, with the box A, having an air-chamber, b, and provided with a chambered lid or cover, c, of the icereceptacle B, having that edge next to the airescape tube e, provided in the upper part of the box, resting against the under side of thev Witnesses:

O. B. COURTRIGHT, W. STRIKER. 

